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Shift was designed for anyone who spends the majority of their day online.
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Overall we're very happy with Shift and I can't see myself not using it. It's a simple but effective tool to consolidate your desktop and make you extremely focused on the important things.
I have already blocked from my mind how awful it was to log in and out of software all the time in a regular browser.
I love the Gmail integration, I love how easy it is to get to my Google calender, Google Drive and gmail all from the same tab.
I do not see this problem on the Mac side at all where I can leave it open all the time and never have the same problem.
I love having all of my email accounts and frequently used web apps in one client. It has a clean, attractive design, and it performs well.
My sole frustration with the software is the lack of expediency in addressing bugs.
I love that you can have multiples of the same app saved on the sidebar for multiple accounts.
Terrible service and a product that basically does the opposite of what it's supposed to.
Avast's antivirus protection is very effective, and web browsing with Avast Secure Browser makes me more relaxed than other browsers, so I mainly use Avast Secure Browser to browse banking sites.
Sometimes alerts and warnings about risks can be a bit annoying, unintentionally making the user want to avoid them.
Like most browsers, it nice and easy to use with some added features such as Adware block that make browsing safe and secure.
ASB for my Android phone was clunky and hard to use. I tried it for a couple of weeks and got fed up and frustrated.
The fact that Avast had previewed a load of browser extensions for security and safety was excellent and gave me confidence when selecting, installing and using extensions.
Well, my problem whit this is that browser is set itself as the default browser and it's so annoying so I need to change the browser every day.
Security features are of good quality and they aren't complicated.
This browser is so annoying if you have another one.
Steven: Hi, my name is Steven. I'm a multimedia specialist for Exit Realty Consultants, and I will give a Shift a rating of four. Before Shift, I was using multiple different web browsers to access different accounts. There's just so many tracking cookies that were keeping people's passwords and information. And coordinating with the admin, using the front desk computers, which is becoming too much of a burden when everyone was signing each other out of what they needed and no one was remembering how to access or what they were working on the previous day. So we switched over to Shift. So Shift was our first program. I chose Shift because it had a very friendly user interface. I felt like my team could pick it up really fast. I liked that it grouped the storage, whether it was Microsoft Office 365, or if it was Google, like Gmail, it grouped all of those components together and it made it really accessible for my team. Getting started with Shift was really easy, I would say. I don't think there was any issues. And it's really great because you can design it the way you want it, like sort it from most important programs to least important, or maybe you want to group them depending on what area of the company they reside in. So it is very easy and also very customizable. I would say it's a no-brainer to at least try it because there is a free version, just to see if it works for you. I've definitely seen a massive improvement in productivity when people utilize workspace softwares such as Shift. So what have you got to lose when it's free? Just try it out.
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